The Election and Our Fractured Public Sphere
NCAC's Director of Programs reflects on what we do now, to promote speech across political lines, in post-election America.
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NCAC’s Top 16 Free Speech Defenders (& Offenders) in 2016
Facebook, nude art and conservative lawmakers are just a few elements of NCAC's top offenders/defenders of free speech list. But who made the no 1 spots?
Censored Artists Silent Auction 2016
Catalogue of Artworks NCAC's Celebration of Free Speech & Its Defenders, November 1 2016 ARTIST: Mark Ryden LOT: Tree of Mystery, 2009. Gicleé print with hand-carved wood frame. Edition: 29/40. Print Size: 21¼ x 28¼ inches. FAIR MARKET VALUE: $4,000. Bidding starts at $1,000. DESCRIPTION: Tree of Mystery is a limited edition giclée print with letterpressed title and embossed chop on [...]
New PEN Report on Campus Free Speech, Trigger Warnings and Title IX
The report assesses the reality of the narrative espoused by the loudest critics of contemporary campus culture: that free speech at the American university is facing an existential crisis.
Partly Annotated Bibliography: Books and Articles on Censorship
GENERAL BOOKS FILM / TELEVISION / RADIO / MEDIA VISUAL ART INTERNET CAMPUS SPEECH GENERAL Abel, Richard. Speaking respect, respecting speech. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Abramson, Paul R. and Steven D. Pinkerton, Mark Huppin. Sexual Rights in America: the Ninth Amendment and the pursuit of happiness. New York, London: New York University Press, 2003. Al-Gharbi, Musa. "Nir Eyal's Newsletter featuring "It's [...]
A Dispatch From The Free Expression Network Student Summit
NCAC attended the Free Expression Network's student summit at the Newseum in D.C.
It’s Not Censorship To Want More Female Game Protagonists
Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson describes fan pressure on developers to implement more female video games as censorship, but is this fair?
School Librarians And Their Constitutional Responsibilities
What are the legal and educational responsibilities of school librarians in stocking their book shelves?
Nationwide Day of Readings of “I Am Jazz”
We’re proud to partner with the Human Rights Campaign’s Welcoming Schools initiative in a nationwide day readings of I Am Jazz, one of the most challenged books in the country.
Under Fire: 5 Notable LGBTQ Books
While there is undoubtedly greater LGBT acceptance in the mainstream, there has been a rise in challenges to LGBT literature.
NCAC to Dept. of Ed: Proposals to Regulate Private Online Speech Would Run Afoul of the First Amendment
Calls to ban social media platforms to combat campus discrimination threaten students' free speech rights.
Free Speech Friday: Don’t Joke About Trump, Censoring Climate, Clinton’s Free Speech Record
Trouble With a Trump joke in a new movie? Plus an effort to protect student journalists in Maryland, and a plan to thwart teaching climate change in West Virginia schools.
Free Speech Friday: LGBT Theater, Campus Free Speech, Scalia
Free Speech Friday: LGBT Theater, Campus Free Speech, Scalia.
Free Speech Friday: Newspaper Nipples, Satanism and Bernie Sanders
Free speech highlights from the week: Facebook deletes marijuana pages. Georgetown tells students they can't engage in political speech, a high school newspaper is censored.
A Birthday Cake for George Washington: The Problem with Banishing Books
Scholastic's decision to cease distribution of a controversial children's book raises some fundamental questions about free speech and self-censorship.
In Omaha Sex Ed Fight, Board Must Choose Sound Science
A series of proposed changes to the sex ed curriculum in Omaha, Nebraska generated intense opposition late last year, with hundreds of angry parents packing a meeting to denounce plans to teach students about gender identity, emergency contraception, and abortion. Now it is up to the board to decide how and what students will learn.
15 Threats to Free Speech in 2015
Free speech zones. Book banning. Facebook's nudity rules. The hysteria over 'Islamic indoctrination.' Let's review just some of the threats to free speech in 2015.
NCAC Report: What’s All This About Trigger Warnings?
A broad national survey of college instructors reveals how the debate over trigger warnings is playing out in classrooms.
Campus Protests and Free Speech Values
As protests rock several campuses, free speech rights seem to be up for debate. But there is no reason that equality and free speech should be considered opposing values.
15 in ’15: Celebrating This Year’s Free Speech Heroes
From defending challenged library books to promoting campus free speech to identifying nudity double standards on social media, here are a few of the folks we consider Free Speech Heroes in 2015.